I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend.

You can quit smoking, and never have to have a cigarette again to survive. But with food, it is a daily challenge.

I don't pretend for a second that I'm that great of a person on a day-to-day basis. I'm a deeply flawed human.

I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone's Christmas.

The very best parts of me go into my writing, it is the best version of myself, and I don't think it's hubristic to believe that that's worth something, worth someone else's time. It's the most I have to offer the world.

I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.

I'm not that much of a researcher. I'm good at channeling characters, and I'm good at structure.